Great Falls tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1887-1890, 1887-06-04
MORMON HORRORS.
Kate Field Less in Love with Poly
gamy than Ever and Leaves Salt
Lake City in Disgust.

SALT LAKE Cry. May ga represen-
tative of the Tribune called on Miss Kate
Field yesterday for her opinions. There
upon the little lady said, graciously: 81
am glad you have come. There are whole
chapters that l would like to publish, the
way / feel this morning. How shall
commence? have recently come in con-
tact with a number of plural wives, and I
am less in love with polygamy than ever.
4 entered polygamy to save myself from
damnation,' said n unhappy plural wife,
but I have been damned ever since Imar-
ried. I've had such wicked thoughts, said
such wicked things, and done such wicked
things. The first wife does not recognize
me. / don't blame her, but OH it is aw-
full! My nature is transformed
"Only Yesterday a friend of mine told ME
of being called in to help a plural wife
who was about to become a mother. The
poor woman lay in the same room with
four other wives and eight children.
What do you think of that for the king
dom of God on earth? Another friend
has found four wives in two rooms.
Listen to this letter from a prominent
Normon's daughter:
"'I have known the true inv ardness of
polygamy, 0 only in my W family, but
in many others, as | have always been sur
rounded by it. Polygamy is necessity in
many instances. Parents prohibit associ-
alton with Gentiles. consequently the girls
must marry Mormons, and these men can
marry as many wives as they please, with
out so much as informing the first wife of
the marriage. The silent suffering of these
poor women is hearth ending. No kind of
physical punishment, such as beating, can
compare with the constant rending of their
heartstrings. In u model family one of
the wives attempted to hang herself;
another, when about to be confined, lock-
ed herself up in a room alone, hearing her
groans, Fforced open a window and enter
ed. The poor oma insisted upon my
not calling any one,a as she wanted to die.
Two other wome of the family died bro
k~en-heated.'"
Miss Fields left to-day for the west on
her way to the Golden Coast and Alaska.
True, says the Salt Lake Tribune, hearts
here will wish her a safe and pleasant
journey and that with her vision broad
ened by glimpses of the splendor and the
power of the empire which makes the
bulwark of her country against the west
ern ocean, she will, with a firmer faith, if
possible, than she now possesses, renew
her warfare upon all the serpents of
wrong which make their lairs "beneath
the altar of liberty" Yosemite, the big
trees, the wheat fields of the Sacramento
and the San joaquin; the vineyard and the
orange groves: old Shasta and Rainier, the
splendor of the Oregon where she rolls
out to meet the incoming seas in everlast-
ing clamor and power, the island-fringed
channel up to where the glaciers are in
flow, all carry with them an air of immen-
sity which can not fail to impress the
stranger, and we predictthat on her return
Miss Field will confess that when she
went to Europe and thought it was the
thing to do, she was doing herself a wrong
by not having seen that portion of her ma
tive land which will draw people in ing
ereasing numbers, through all the years
to come, to look upon its largeness and its
clustered glories.